Making up for lost time

Memorial day weekend we were planning on going to Lyman for Olivia's (Kelly's sisters daughter) graduation party and then Kelly had an Aunt that passed away so we went to a funeral and then a graduation party. Usually when I get crazy ideas Kelly tells me "NO", when we were almost to Cody I said "Why don't we go down through Yellowstone" and he agreed with me so we took the scenic route with a 17 mo. old who doesn't have much long haul car seat experience. That part was not so fun. In Grand Teton we did see a bear (really far off ~ it looks more like a cow in the pictures so I won't post them). I love scenic drives so I really enjoyed the drive down and back for the most part.

Jake really is in the "family" picture that a stranger so kindly offered to take of us.

Taylor and Britnee enjoying the beautiful scenery.

Colton enjoying the beautiful scenery.



The next weekend (Saturday afternoon) we decided to hit the local beach/Cooney reservoir

It was beautiful all Saturday morning however by the time we got to Cooney

this is what it looked like!

Colton caught a big crawdad but didn't want to get his face too close to it

On Friday June 5th it was the last day of school and Coltons birthday we decided to surprise the kids by taking them to Chico Hot Springs. We had a great time lounging in the pools. Taylor loved it on Friday evening she hardly made a sound for about 2 hours in the pool. However on Saturday she didn't think it was so fun she lasted a whole 10 minutes. When I booked the reservations it was a balmy 80 degrees, we were hoping for 65-75 degrees to enjoy the water in, the closer we got to Friday the more worried we got. The high was supposed to be 48 on Saturday! It was actually a little warmer than that and it wasn't bad except for when you were out of the water. Now you know why I haven't blogged for so long.

Friday when Taylor loved it!

This is what the mountains looked like at Chico but we're tough.

In the midst of all our activities I am trying to grow grass. As you can
see we have been a little bit busy. I hope to update you all again before July!